The KNMI has issued a code red weather warning because of slippery conditions. This applies from 03.00 on Monday 15 February. All university buildings...
When and how commenced the use of fire by early humans? Armed with stones, peat moss, and fungi, archaeologist Andy Sorensen tries to answer that ques...
The question of land property titles is a common source of conflict between indigenous communities and federal authorities all over the Americas. A ne...
When following a course on archaeology of the Crusaders, five archaeology students were presented the unique opportunity to create a small exhibition ...
People in the Early Bonze Age used bronze artefacts as a means of payment. This is the conclusion reached by archaeologists Maikel Kuijpers and Catali...
December 2020 saw the crowning publication of the Landscapes of Survival project by Professor Peter Akkermans. Its main topic is human habitation in m...
In a New York Times report on a bitter archaeological feud over the Nebra sky disk, Maikel Kuijpers reflects on its importance. 'It’s really unfortuna...
A better balance between teaching and research duties, greater recognition of team performances and the elimination of simplistic assessment criteria....
In summer 2018 classical archaeologist Hanna Stöger passed away. At that moment she was in the midst of several cutting-edge research projects on the ...
Archaeologist Bjørn Peare Barthold suspected farmers in a doctorless 19th century Dutch village may have been self-medicating to manage pain and disea...
Researchers from the Faculty of Humanities and the Faculty of Archaeology, with the support of the communication departments of these Faculties and th...
A festival that combines music and science, and a digital 'time machine' for science history: four Leiden projects that focus on science communication...
The identification of the material of prehistoric arrowheads as human bone led to interest from the media. Research Master's student Jan Dekker, the p...
The School for Advanced Research organised an onlne conversation between Dr Bleda Düring and his co-editors of the publication Archaeologies of Empire...
